Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what investigation they have conducted into evidence reporting lower incidence of age-related macular degeneration in patients with blue-light filtering intraocular lenses; and what account was taken of that evidence in the preparation of the NICE draft guideline Cataracts in adults: management.

The Government has not conducted any such investigation. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the independent body responsible for developing authoritative, evidence-based guidance for the National Health Service. NICE will consider all the evidence fully in developing its final guidance on the management of cataracts due for publication in October 2017.